Argon matches GPT-6 Astra on Artificial Analysis's intelligence index at a promotional 60% of its cost per task and lifts output to a million tokens - but it ships only to Google's Fairwind cyber defenders, with the cyber guardrails deliberately off.

MI5 named the China General Technology Research Institute a front for Beijing's ministry of state security, said its purpose is funding research that improves MSS espionage capability, and warned academics they can now be prosecuted under the National Security Act.

SB 947 bars California employers from firing or disciplining on AI output alone, requires written notice and a named human contact, and arrived with an executive order declaring that in California the technology stays called artificial intelligence.